... in, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. From a cat to guavas, they are more prominent in this story than any other story I have ever read. Leaving their home was a difficult thing to do for the young Garcia girls. They had been living the high life in the Dominican Republic. They got glimpses of the United States when they were in the Dominican Republic when their father brought ... them special gifts from the well-known store in New York, FAO Schwarz. " Papi was back with a wonderful surprise from New York-(257). The kitten is a symbol of the Garcia girls. Like the kitten, the gir...

• Word Count: 1515
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... as the SIM, the disregarded civil liberties for Haitian immigrants, the complications encountered with trying to leave the country, and even the importance of privacy and dangers of being suspicioned for rebelling against the regime of Trujillo's rule. Without this vital information shared by Alvarez, the world may have never known the reality Dominicans faced living under a dictatorship. In Alvarez's novel, "How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents," her chapter on The Blood of the Conquistadors, tells the ... story of how her family had to withstand a great deal of controversy when two...

• Word Count: 1913
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... like they did not want to be seen with her. This shows how she might have been accepted, but no man was proud to be with her. While thinking of research only one book came to my mind that would show the exact opposite, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. In this story Yo, the oldest of the four girls, would not give into male dominance and peer pressure. This in ... the end made her life miserable and she was even driven insane because of it. Yo was from another country and ... was taught that sex was sacred and she should not give into men whom are after it. The reason she was mi...

• Word Count: 1822
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School